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Daily Bible Reading
by Christ Church Hemel
Daily Bible Reading is a short, chapter‑by‑chapter Bible podcast from Christ Church Hemel, hosted by David Couch. Each day we read a passage of Scripture and briefly reflect on how it fits into the big story of the Bible and points us to Jesus. Join our church family as we follow a daily Bible reading plan together.Find the full reading plan and more resources here: https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/
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Job 35: Your Sin Doesn't Affect God
🎧 Job 35 | Your Sin Doesn't Affect GodThree speeches in, and Elihu is recycling.He started strong — genuine, frustrated, closer to the truth than the friends. But now? The fresh angle has worn thin. The arguments are getting shorter. The conviction is getting louder. The substance is getting thinner.Every human voice is running out. Friends. Job. Elihu. All of them. The book is exhausting every human answer before God speaks.Pray the prayer underneath all of this: Speak, Lord. I've run out of words. But you haven't.#Job #Bible #BibleReading #Elihu #Prayer #Waiting #DailyBibleReadingDaily Bible Reading is a chapter-by-chapter Bible reading podcast from Christ Church Hemel, helping you read through the Bible one chapter at a time. Follow the full reading plan here: https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/If you're local to Hemel Hempstead, you're very welcome to join us on Sundays at 10:30am and 6pm.
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Job 34: God Does No Wrong
🎧 Job 34 | God Does No Wrong"It is unthinkable that God would do wrong, that the Almighty would pervert justice."True. Essential. Non-negotiable.And still not enough. Job never denied God's justice. He asked: where are you? Why won't you speak? Elihu answers the question Job isn't asking and ignores the one he is.True theology can still miss the person. Correct doctrine is not the same as presence. And sometimes a drowning person needs a hand, not a theology textbook.#Job #Bible #BibleReading #Theology #Suffering #Elihu #DailyBibleReadingDaily Bible Reading is a chapter-by-chapter Bible reading podcast from Christ Church Hemel, helping you read through the Bible one chapter at a time. Follow the full reading plan here: https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/If you're local to Hemel Hempstead, you're very welcome to join us on Sundays at 10:30am and 6pm.
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Job 32–33: The Angry Young Man
🎧 Job 32–33 | The Angry Young ManNew voice. Young. Angry. Convinced he has the angle everyone missed.Elihu has been sitting in silence through three rounds of failed comfort, getting angrier by the verse. Now he erupts. And buried in chapter 33, almost in passing, he uses a word he doesn't fully understand: ransom."I have found a ransom for them." He's sketching the shape of something he can't see. He thinks he's making a theological point. He's pointing further than he knows.#Job #Bible #BibleReading #Elihu #Ransom #Mediation #DailyBibleReadingDaily Bible Reading is a chapter-by-chapter Bible reading podcast from Christ Church Hemel, helping you read through the Bible one chapter at a time. Follow the full reading plan here: https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/If you're local to Hemel Hempstead, you're very welcome to join us on Sundays at 10:30am and 6pm.
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Job 31: Let God Answer Me
🎧 Job 31 | Let God Answer MeSixteen "if" statements. Each one a formal self-curse. This is Job's closing argument — and it covers not just actions, but desires. Not just behaviour, but the hidden geography of the heart."If I have walked with falsehood… If my heart has been enticed… If I have rejoiced at my enemy's misfortune."Centuries before the Sermon on the Mount, Job submits his inner life to God's examination. And then throws down the gauntlet: "Let the Almighty answer me."That's not defiance. It's the most profound act of faith in the book.#Job #Bible #BibleReading #Faith #Integrity #Prayer #DailyBibleReadingDaily Bible Reading is a chapter-by-chapter Bible reading podcast from Christ Church Hemel, helping you read through the Bible one chapter at a time. Follow the full reading plan here: https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/If you're local to Hemel Hempstead, you're very welcome to join us on Sundays at 10:30am and 6pm.
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Job 29–30: Then and Now
🎧 Job 29–30 | Then and NowThis is the low point. The valley before the climb.Chapter 29: then. God close. Honour given. Justice flowing. "When God watched over me, when his lamp shone on my head."Chapter 30: now. Mocked. Alone. Unanswered. "I cry out to you, but you do not answer."Twenty days of accumulation, and here it hits hardest. The gap between "then" and "now" is unbearable. And the Redeemer? Still lives. Even here. Even in the gap.Name the gap. Then hold on.#Job #Bible #BibleReading #Suffering #ThenAndNow #MyRedeemerLives #DailyBibleReadingDaily Bible Reading is a chapter-by-chapter Bible reading podcast from Christ Church Hemel, helping you read through the Bible one chapter at a time. Follow the full reading plan here: https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/If you're local to Hemel Hempstead, you're very welcome to join us on Sundays at 10:30am and 6pm.
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Job 28: Where Can Wisdom Be Found?
🎧 Job 28 | Where Can Wisdom Be Found?The book pauses. The dialogue stops. And one question rings out like a refrain."Where can wisdom be found? Where does understanding dwell?"Not in the earth. Not in the sea. Not for sale at any price. And then the answer — the hinge verse of the entire book: "The fear of the LORD — that is wisdom."Two things to carry from today. My Redeemer lives — when everything has been taken. Fear the LORD — when every human explanation has run out. Both halves. Both yours.#Job #Bible #BibleReading #Wisdom #FearTheLord #Proverbs #DailyBibleReadingDaily Bible Reading is a chapter-by-chapter Bible reading podcast from Christ Church Hemel, helping you read through the Bible one chapter at a time. Follow the full reading plan here: https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/If you're local to Hemel Hempstead, you're very welcome to join us on Sundays at 10:30am and 6pm.
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Job 27: I Will Not Deny My Integrity
🎧 Job 27 | I Will Not Deny My Integrity"As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice… I will not deny my integrity."Job swears his oath by the God he's accusing. He invokes as his witness the very person he's fighting with. That is one of the most remarkable sentences in the Bible.Faith isn't feeling at peace with God. Faith is staying in the relationship when you're not. Job proves it. He's angry. He's fighting. And he won't let go.#Job #Bible #BibleReading #Faith #Integrity #Suffering #DailyBibleReadingDaily Bible Reading is a chapter-by-chapter Bible reading podcast from Christ Church Hemel, helping you read through the Bible one chapter at a time. Follow the full reading plan here: https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/If you're local to Hemel Hempstead, you're very welcome to join us on Sundays at 10:30am and 6pm.
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Job 25–26: The Argument Collapses
🎧 Job 25–26 | The Argument CollapsesCount Bildad's verses today: six. That's it.Compare that to his first speech: twenty-two verses. His second: twenty-one. Now six. The argument has run out of fuel. And Zophar? He doesn't speak at all.The verse-count collapse tells the story. Human wisdom has exhausted itself. The form embodies the message. Three friends, nine speeches — and all of it wasn't enough.Only God can speak now. The silence is the message. Stop explaining. Start waiting.#Job #Bible #BibleReading #HumanWisdom #Silence #Suffering #DailyBibleReadingDaily Bible Reading is a chapter-by-chapter Bible reading podcast from Christ Church Hemel, helping you read through the Bible one chapter at a time. Follow the full reading plan here: https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/If you're local to Hemel Hempstead, you're very welcome to join us on Sundays at 10:30am and 6pm.
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Job 23–24: If Only I Could Find Him
🎧 Job 23–24 | If Only I Could Find HimEast, west, north, south. Job searches every direction. God is nowhere.And then — verse 10."But he knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I shall come forth as gold."You can't always find God. But he has never lost you. That's Job 23:10. And in a chapter of searching without finding, it may be the most beautiful verse in the book.#Job #Bible #BibleReading #HiddenGod #Suffering #HeKnowsTheWayITake #DailyBibleReadingDaily Bible Reading is a chapter-by-chapter Bible reading podcast from Christ Church Hemel, helping you read through the Bible one chapter at a time. Follow the full reading plan here: https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/If you're local to Hemel Hempstead, you're very welcome to join us on Sundays at 10:30am and 6pm.
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Job 22: False Accusation
🎧 Job 22 | False AccusationEliphaz invents sins."You stripped people of their clothing, leaving them naked. You gave no water to the weary and withheld food from the hungry. You sent widows away empty-handed."None of it is true. The narrator told us in chapter 1: Job was blameless. There is no evidence anywhere in the book that Job did any of these things. Eliphaz is fabricating — and the fabrication is the lowest point of the friends' long slide from comfort to cruelty.When theology requires lying about people to stay intact, the theology is broken.#Job #Bible #BibleReading #Suffering #FalseAccusation #DailyBibleReadingDaily Bible Reading is a chapter-by-chapter Bible reading podcast from Christ Church Hemel, helping you read through the Bible one chapter at a time. Follow the full reading plan here: https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/If you're local to Hemel Hempstead, you're very welcome to join us on Sundays at 10:30am and 6pm.
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Job 21: The Wicked Prosper
🎧 Job 21 | The Wicked ProsperJob says something that would make the Psalms blush.Psalm 1: the wicked are like chaff the wind blows away. Job's response: "How often? Really?" Because from where he's sitting, the wicked are growing old, growing rich, going to the grave in peace.This is the counterargument. And it's devastating. Not because Job is abandoning faith — but because he refuses to let pious fiction stand in place of honest observation.Honest about what you see. Faithful to who you know. Both. Not one or the other.#Job #Bible #BibleReading #Psalms #Suffering #Lament #DailyBibleReadingDaily Bible Reading is a chapter-by-chapter Bible reading podcast from Christ Church Hemel, helping you read through the Bible one chapter at a time. Follow the full reading plan here: https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/If you're local to Hemel Hempstead, you're very welcome to join us on Sundays at 10:30am and 6pm.
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Job 20: The Triumph of the Wicked
🎧 Job 20 | The Triumph of the WickedZophar is certain. Yesterday, Job was certain.The contrast is the point.Zophar's certainty is about a principle: the wicked will perish. Job's certainty is about a person: my Redeemer lives. When suffering hits, which one holds? Principles crack when innocent people suffer. Persons don't.The retribution theology is restated in full. But Job has already demolished it. Or rather — his Redeemer has.#Job #Bible #BibleReading #Suffering #MyRedeemerLives #DailyBibleReadingDaily Bible Reading is a chapter-by-chapter Bible reading podcast from Christ Church Hemel, helping you read through the Bible one chapter at a time. Follow the full reading plan here: https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/If you're local to Hemel Hempstead, you're very welcome to join us on Sundays at 10:30am and 6pm.
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Job 19: My Redeemer Lives
🎧 Job 19 | My Redeemer LivesThis is it. Everything has been building to this.Total isolation. No friend. No family. No advocate. No comfort. And from that place — stripped of everything, skin and bones, sitting in ashes — Job speaks."I know that my Redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand on the earth. And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God."Say it out loud: My Redeemer lives. Not because you understand. Because he does.#Job #Bible #BibleReading #MyRedeemerLives #Goel #Isaiah #Suffering #DailyBibleReadingDaily Bible Reading is a chapter-by-chapter Bible reading podcast from Christ Church Hemel, helping you read through the Bible one chapter at a time. Follow the full reading plan here: https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/If you're local to Hemel Hempstead, you're very welcome to join us on Sundays at 10:30am and 6pm.
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Job 18: King of Terrors
🎧 Job 18 | King of TerrorsBildad paints death. Vivid. Violent. Aimed at Job."The king of terrors." He means it as a threat — this is what awaits the wicked, and it's coming for you. He thinks he's describing Job's future.He is. Just not in the way he means.Because what Bildad doesn't know is that Job's response — coming tomorrow — will name the one who defeats the king of terrors. Bildad has just written the Redeemer's job description.#Job #Bible #BibleReading #Death #Resurrection #Suffering #DailyBibleReadingDaily Bible Reading is a chapter-by-chapter Bible reading podcast from Christ Church Hemel, helping you read through the Bible one chapter at a time. Follow the full reading plan here: https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/If you're local to Hemel Hempstead, you're very welcome to join us on Sundays at 10:30am and 6pm.
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Job 16–17: My Witness is in Heaven
🎧 Job 16–17 | My Witness is in Heaven"Even now my witness is in heaven; my advocate is on high."Job 16:19. Four words: "even now." Present tense. Not a wish. Not a hope. A declaration.In chapter 9, Job longed for a mediator: if only there were someone. Today, from the darkest chapters in the book, something changes. He doesn't hope. He declares. The mediator has a location.The darkness hasn't lifted. Nothing has changed. But Job has seen something — and it's everything.#Job #Bible #BibleReading #Suffering #Mediator #Hope #IsaiahServantSongs #DailyBibleReadingDaily Bible Reading is a chapter-by-chapter Bible reading podcast from Christ Church Hemel, helping you read through the Bible one chapter at a time. Follow the full reading plan here: https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/If you're local to Hemel Hempstead, you're very welcome to join us on Sundays at 10:30am and 6pm.
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Job 15: Your Own Mouth Condemns You
🎧 Job 15 | Your Own Mouth Condemns You"Your own mouth condemns you, not mine; your own lips testify against you."Eliphaz has gone from pastoral to prosecuting. And the move is devastating — not because it's cruel, but because it's a closed loop. If Job stays silent, he accepts the verdict. If Job speaks, his speech becomes the evidence against him.The friends' deterioration continues. And the most faithful thing Job has done — crying out to God, staying in the relationship — is now the prosecution's exhibit A.#Job #Bible #BibleReading #Lament #Suffering #DailyBibleReadingDaily Bible Reading is a chapter-by-chapter Bible reading podcast from Christ Church Hemel, helping you read through the Bible one chapter at a time. Follow the full reading plan here: https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/If you're local to Hemel Hempstead, you're very welcome to join us on Sundays at 10:30am and 6pm.
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Job 12-14: Shall We Live Again?
🎧 Job 12–14 | Shall We Live Again?Job opens with sarcasm. He knows everything the friends know. More, actually.And then chapter 14 arrives — and with it, the question underneath all the questions."If someone dies, will they live again?"Job can't answer it. Not yet. He reaches toward hope and pulls back. But the question is out there now. It will take fourteen more chapters for the answer to come — and when it does, it won't be a principle. It'll be a person.#Job #Bible #BibleReading #Resurrection #Suffering #Hope #DailyBibleReadingDaily Bible Reading is a chapter-by-chapter Bible reading podcast from Christ Church Hemel, helping you read through the Bible one chapter at a time. Follow the full reading plan here: https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/If you're local to Hemel Hempstead, you're very welcome to join us on Sundays at 10:30am and 6pm.
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Job 11: God Exacts Less
🎧 Job 11 | God Exacts Less"God exacts less than your guilt deserves."To a man who has lost his children, his wealth, and his health. Who is scraping his sores in the ashes. Zophar tells him: you're getting off lightly.This is what happens when a theological system becomes more important than the person in front of you. Friend number three. The first cycle ends. Three friends. Three failures. And Job no closer to understanding.#Job #Bible #BibleReading #Suffering #Theology #DailyBibleReadingDaily Bible Reading is a chapter-by-chapter Bible reading podcast from Christ Church Hemel, helping you read through the Bible one chapter at a time. Follow the full reading plan here: https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/If you're local to Hemel Hempstead, you're very welcome to join us on Sundays at 10:30am and 6pm.
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Job 9-10: If Only There Were Someone
🎧 Job 9–10 | If Only There Were Someone"If only there were someone to mediate between us, someone to bring us together."One sentence. Job 9:33. And it changes everything that follows.Job acknowledges God's power — "he alone stretches out the heavens" — and that's precisely the problem. He can't get a fair hearing from a God this great. He needs a go-between. An arbiter. Someone to lay a hand on both sides.He doesn't have one. Not yet. But the longing has begun — and it will grow.#Job #Bible #BibleReading #Mediator #Jesus #DailyBibleReadingDaily Bible Reading is a chapter-by-chapter Bible reading podcast from Christ Church Hemel, helping you read through the Bible one chapter at a time. Follow the full reading plan here: https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/If you're local to Hemel Hempstead, you're very welcome to join us on Sundays at 10:30am and 6pm.
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Job 8: Does God Pervert Justice?
🎧 Job 8 | Does God Pervert Justice?Bildad's question is a good one. "Does God pervert justice?" And his answer is correct: no. God does not.Valid logic. Fatal premise.Because in the very next sentence, he tells a grieving father that his dead children got what they deserved. Right theology, wrong address. One sentence. That's how fast it can go.Today we meet the second friend — and learn the difference between speaking about God and speaking to God.#Job #Bible #BibleReading #Suffering #Theology #DailyBibleReadingDaily Bible Reading is a chapter-by-chapter Bible reading podcast from Christ Church Hemel, helping you read through the Bible one chapter at a time. Follow the full reading plan here: https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/If you're local to Hemel Hempstead, you're very welcome to join us on Sundays at 10:30am and 6pm.
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Job 6-7: Wadi Friends
🎧 Job 6–7 | Wadi FriendsA wadi is a desert riverbed. In winter: full, flowing, life-giving. In summer, when you stagger to it dying of thirst — bone dry. Gone.Job calls his friends wadis. And then he does something extraordinary with Psalm 8. "What is mankind that you are mindful of them?" — a psalm of wonder — becomes a complaint about surveillance. Same words. Opposite meaning.This is what suffering does to familiar texts. And what Job does with his disappointment — he takes it straight to God.#Job #Bible #BibleReading #Psalms #Suffering #Lament #DailyBibleReadingDaily Bible Reading is a chapter-by-chapter Bible reading podcast from Christ Church Hemel, helping you read through the Bible one chapter at a time. Follow the full reading plan here: https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/If you're local to Hemel Hempstead, you're very welcome to join us on Sundays at 10:30am and 6pm.
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Job 4-5: The First Comforter
🎧 Job 4–5 | The First ComforterEliphaz means well. He sounds right. He might even be right — in most situations.But Job isn't most situations."Who, being innocent, has ever perished?" It's the question that sounds like comfort and lands like a verdict. Today we meet the first friend — and start to see how good theology, badly applied, can be more devastating than cruelty.Here's the test: does your theology of suffering work for Job chapter 1?#Job #Bible #BibleReading #Suffering #Theology #DailyBibleReadingDaily Bible Reading is a chapter-by-chapter Bible reading podcast from Christ Church Hemel, helping you read through the Bible one chapter at a time. Follow the full reading plan here: https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/If you're local to Hemel Hempstead, you're very welcome to join us on Sundays at 10:30am and 6pm.
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Job 2:11-3:26: The Day I Was Born
🎧 Job 2–3 | The Day I Was BornSeven days of silence. The best thing Job's friends ever did. Then Job speaks.And what comes out is not what you expect. He doesn't curse God. He curses the day he was born.This is chapter 3 — the bleakest chapter in one of the Bible's most honest books. And the Bible insists there's a difference between lament and blasphemy. Job shows us exactly where that line is.#Job #Bible #BibleReading #Lament #Suffering #Psalms #DailyBibleReadingDaily Bible Reading is a chapter-by-chapter Bible reading podcast from Christ Church Hemel, helping you read through the Bible one chapter at a time. Follow the full reading plan here: https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/If you're local to Hemel Hempstead, you're very welcome to join us on Sundays at 10:30am and 6pm.
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Job 1:1-2:10: The Cosmic Test
🎧 Job 1–2 | The Cosmic TestBlameless. Upright. Righteous. God says so himself. Twice.So why does everything fall apart?Job chapters 1 and 2 open one of the most extraordinary books in the Bible — not with a mystery, but with a question. Satan's question: "Does Job fear God for nothing?"One Hebrew word changes everything: chinnam. Worship for nothing. Faith that holds when the bottom falls out. That's what's being tested here — and what the whole 28-day series turns on.#Job #Bible #BibleReading #ChristianFaith #Suffering #DailyBibleReadingDaily Bible Reading is a chapter-by-chapter Bible reading podcast from Christ Church Hemel, helping you read through the Bible one chapter at a time. Follow the full reading plan here: https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/If you're local to Hemel Hempstead, you're very welcome to join us on Sundays at 10:30am and 6pm.
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Psalm 150
🎧 Psalm 150Psalm 150 brings the great climax: every instrument, every creature, every breath.“Let everything that has breath praise the LORD!”#Psalms #Bible #BibleReading #PraiseTheLordDaily Bible Reading is a chapter-by-chapter Bible reading podcast from Christ Church Hemel, helping you read through the Bible one chapter at a time. Follow the full reading plan here:https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/If you’re local to Hemel Hempstead, you’re very welcome to join us on Sundays at 10:30am and 6pm.
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Psalm 149
🎧 Psalm 149The story ends where it was always heading.Psalm 149 returns to Psalm 2 — the King reigns and victory is accomplished.“Let everything that has breath praise the LORD!”#Psalms #Bible #BibleReading #PraiseTheLordDaily Bible Reading is a chapter-by-chapter Bible reading podcast from Christ Church Hemel, helping you read through the Bible one chapter at a time. Follow the full reading plan here:https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/If you’re local to Hemel Hempstead, you’re very welcome to join us on Sundays at 10:30am and 6pm.
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Psalm 148
🎧 Psalm 148Creation sings.Psalm 148 expands outward: angels, stars, mountains, creatures and kings all join the chorus.#Psalms #Bible #BibleReading #PraiseDaily Bible Reading is a chapter-by-chapter Bible reading podcast from Christ Church Hemel, helping you read through the Bible one chapter at a time. Follow the full reading plan here:https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/If you’re local to Hemel Hempstead, you’re very welcome to join us on Sundays at 10:30am and 6pm.
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Psalm 147
🎧 Psalm 147He heals.Psalm 147 celebrates the God who gathers exiles, heals the broken-hearted and names the stars.#Psalms #Bible #BibleReading #PraiseDaily Bible Reading is a chapter-by-chapter Bible reading podcast from Christ Church Hemel, helping you read through the Bible one chapter at a time. Follow the full reading plan here:https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/If you’re local to Hemel Hempstead, you’re very welcome to join us on Sundays at 10:30am and 6pm.
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Psalm 146
🎧 Psalm 146The Final Hallel begins.Psalm 146 opens the final hallelujahs: don’t trust princes who die — trust the LORD who reigns forever.#Psalms #Bible #BibleReading #HallelujahDaily Bible Reading is a chapter-by-chapter Bible reading podcast from Christ Church Hemel, helping you read through the Bible one chapter at a time. Follow the full reading plan here:https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/If you’re local to Hemel Hempstead, you’re very welcome to join us on Sundays at 10:30am and 6pm.
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Psalm 145
🎧 Psalm 145David’s final praise.Psalm 145 closes David’s psalms with God’s compassion reaching all creation.#Psalms #Bible #BibleReading #HallelujahDaily Bible Reading is a chapter-by-chapter Bible reading podcast from Christ Church Hemel, helping you read through the Bible one chapter at a time. Follow the full reading plan here:https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/If you’re local to Hemel Hempstead, you’re very welcome to join us on Sundays at 10:30am and 6pm.
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Psalm 144
🎧 Psalm 144Bless your people.Psalm 144 looks toward blessing — sons, daughters, peace and joy: “Blessed is the people whose God is the LORD.”#Psalms #Bible #BibleReading #BlessedDaily Bible Reading is a chapter-by-chapter Bible reading podcast from Christ Church Hemel, helping you read through the Bible one chapter at a time. Follow the full reading plan here:https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/If you’re local to Hemel Hempstead, you’re very welcome to join us on Sundays at 10:30am and 6pm.
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Psalm 143
🎧 Psalm 143Teach me.Psalm 143 confesses that no one is righteous before God and asks to be taught.#Psalms #Bible #BibleReading #BlessedDaily Bible Reading is a chapter-by-chapter Bible reading podcast from Christ Church Hemel, helping you read through the Bible one chapter at a time. Follow the full reading plan here:https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/If you’re local to Hemel Hempstead, you’re very welcome to join us on Sundays at 10:30am and 6pm.
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Psalm 142
🎧 Psalm 142Hear my cave cry.Psalm 141 asks God to guard David’s mouth and make prayer rise like incense. Psalm 142 comes from a cave — lonely, honest and desperate: “You are my refuge.”#Psalms #Bible #BibleReading #RefugeDaily Bible Reading is a chapter-by-chapter Bible reading podcast from Christ Church Hemel, helping you read through the Bible one chapter at a time. Follow the full reading plan here:https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/If you’re local to Hemel Hempstead, you’re very welcome to join us on Sundays at 10:30am and 6pm.
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Psalm 141
🎧 Psalm 141Guard my lips.Psalm 141 asks God to guard David’s mouth and make prayer rise like incense.#Psalms #Bible #BibleReading #RefugeDaily Bible Reading is a chapter-by-chapter Bible reading podcast from Christ Church Hemel, helping you read through the Bible one chapter at a time. Follow the full reading plan here:https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/If you’re local to Hemel Hempstead, you’re very welcome to join us on Sundays at 10:30am and 6pm.
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Psalm 140
🎧 Psalm 140Hunted fiercely.Psalm 140 moves into danger: serpent tongues, hidden traps and a cry for rescue.#Psalms #Bible #BibleReading #PrayerDaily Bible Reading is a chapter-by-chapter Bible reading podcast from Christ Church Hemel, helping you read through the Bible one chapter at a time. Follow the full reading plan here:https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/If you’re local to Hemel Hempstead, you’re very welcome to join us on Sundays at 10:30am and 6pm.
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Psalm 139
🎧 Psalm 139Known completely.Psalm 139 celebrates the God who searches, knows and formed us.#Psalms #Bible #BibleReading #PrayerDaily Bible Reading is a chapter-by-chapter Bible reading podcast from Christ Church Hemel, helping you read through the Bible one chapter at a time. Follow the full reading plan here:https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/If you’re local to Hemel Hempstead, you’re very welcome to join us on Sundays at 10:30am and 6pm.
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Psalm 138
🎧 Psalm 138David’s thanksgiving.Psalm 138 begins David’s final psalms with confidence: all kings will praise the LORD, and “The LORD will vindicate me.”#Psalms #Bible #BibleReading #ExileDaily Bible Reading is a chapter-by-chapter Bible reading podcast from Christ Church Hemel, helping you read through the Bible one chapter at a time. Follow the full reading plan here:https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/If you’re local to Hemel Hempstead, you’re very welcome to join us on Sundays at 10:30am and 6pm.
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Psalm 137
🎧 Psalm 137Babylon’s rivers.Psalm 137 pulls us back into exile — tears, silence and longing for Zion.#Psalms #Bible #BibleReading #ExileDaily Bible Reading is a chapter-by-chapter Bible reading podcast from Christ Church Hemel, helping you read through the Bible one chapter at a time. Follow the full reading plan here:https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/If you’re local to Hemel Hempstead, you’re very welcome to join us on Sundays at 10:30am and 6pm.
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Psalm 136
🎧 Psalm 136One refrain that keeps returning.Psalm 136 answers with the heartbeat of Book 5: “His love endures for ever.” Twenty-six times.#Psalms #Bible #BibleReading #HisLoveEnduresForeverDaily Bible Reading is a chapter-by-chapter Bible reading podcast from Christ Church Hemel, helping you read through the Bible one chapter at a time. Follow the full reading plan here:https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/If you’re local to Hemel Hempstead, you’re very welcome to join us on Sundays at 10:30am and 6pm.
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Psalm 135
🎧 Psalm 135Praise. History rehearsed.Psalm 135 looks back: creation, exodus, conquest — and mocks idols that cannot see, hear or save.#Psalms #Bible #BibleReading #HisLoveEnduresForeverDaily Bible Reading is a chapter-by-chapter Bible reading podcast from Christ Church Hemel, helping you read through the Bible one chapter at a time. Follow the full reading plan here:https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/If you’re local to Hemel Hempstead, you’re very welcome to join us on Sundays at 10:30am and 6pm.
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Psalms 133-134
🎧 Psalms 133–134Today’s Daily Bible Reading is Psalms 133–134 — a short Christian devotional about unity among God’s people, worship in God’s house, and receiving blessing from Zion. We read the passage and briefly reflect on what God is saying and how it fits into the big story of Scripture.In this episode:– The main theme: The joy of unity and worship in God’s presence– How this passage points us to Jesus– How to pray for unity, praise, and blessingDaily Bible Reading is a chapter-by-chapter Bible reading podcast from Christ Church Hemel, helping you read through the Bible one chapter at a time. Follow the full reading plan here:https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/If you’re local to Hemel Hempstead, you’re very welcome to join us on Sundays at 10:30am and 6pm.
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Psalm 132
🎧 Psalm 132Today’s Daily Bible Reading is Psalm 132 — a short Christian devotional about God’s covenant with David, the hope of the coming King, and the promise of an eternal throne. We read the passage and briefly reflect on what God is saying and how it fits into the big story of Scripture.In this episode:– The main theme: God’s promise that David’s King will reign for ever– How this passage points us to Jesus– How to pray with confidence in God’s promisesDaily Bible Reading is a chapter-by-chapter Bible reading podcast from Christ Church Hemel, helping you read through the Bible one chapter at a time. Follow the full reading plan here:https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/If you’re local to Hemel Hempstead, you’re very welcome to join us on Sundays at 10:30am and 6pm.
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Psalms 130-131
🎧 Psalms 130–131Today’s Daily Bible Reading is Psalms 130–131 — a short Christian devotional about crying out to God from the depths, receiving forgiveness, and finding rest for the soul. We read the passage and briefly reflect on what God is saying and how it fits into the big story of Scripture.In this episode:– The main theme: From the depths to a quiet and trusting soul– How this passage points us to Jesus– How to pray in repentance, waiting, and peaceDaily Bible Reading is a chapter-by-chapter Bible reading podcast from Christ Church Hemel, helping you read through the Bible one chapter at a time. Follow the full reading plan here:https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/If you’re local to Hemel Hempstead, you’re very welcome to join us on Sundays at 10:30am and 6pm.
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Psalms 128-129
🎧 Psalms 128–129Today’s Daily Bible Reading is Psalms 128–129 — a short Christian devotional about God’s blessing, enduring hardship, and the Lord’s faithfulness through suffering. We read the passage and briefly reflect on what God is saying and how it fits into the big story of Scripture.In this episode:– The main theme: Blessing and suffering in the life of God’s people– How this passage points us to Jesus– How to pray through both joy and afflictionDaily Bible Reading is a chapter-by-chapter Bible reading podcast from Christ Church Hemel, helping you read through the Bible one chapter at a time. Follow the full reading plan here:https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/If you’re local to Hemel Hempstead, you’re very welcome to join us on Sundays at 10:30am and 6pm.
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Psalms 126-127
🎧 Psalms 126–127Today’s Daily Bible Reading is Psalms 126–127 — a short Christian devotional about restoration, joyful harvest, and trusting the Lord rather than anxious striving. We read the passage and briefly reflect on what God is saying and how it fits into the big story of Scripture.In this episode:– The main theme: Unless the Lord builds, we labour in vain– How this passage points us to Jesus– How to pray with trust, patience, and restDaily Bible Reading is a chapter-by-chapter Bible reading podcast from Christ Church Hemel, helping you read through the Bible one chapter at a time. Follow the full reading plan here:https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/If you’re local to Hemel Hempstead, you’re very welcome to join us on Sundays at 10:30am and 6pm.
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Psalms 124-125
Today’s Daily Bible Reading is Psalms 124–125 — a short Christian devotional about God’s protection, rescue, and the security of trusting in him. We read the passage and briefly reflect on what God is saying and how it fits into the big story of Scripture.In this episode:– The main theme: The Lord rescues and surrounds his people– How this passage points us to Jesus– How to pray with confidence and trustDaily Bible Reading is a chapter-by-chapter Bible reading podcast from Christ Church Hemel, helping you read through the Bible one chapter at a time. Follow the full reading plan here:https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/If you’re local to Hemel Hempstead, you’re very welcome to join us on Sundays at 10:30am and 6pm.
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Psalms 122-123
🎧 Psalms 122–123Today’s Daily Bible Reading is Psalms 122–123 — a short Christian devotional about rejoicing in God’s presence, praying for peace, and looking to the Lord for mercy. We read the passage and briefly reflect on what God is saying and how it fits into the big story of Scripture.In this episode:– The main theme: Rejoicing in God’s house and waiting for his mercy– How this passage points us to Jesus– How to pray for peace, mercy, and worshipful joyDaily Bible Reading is a chapter-by-chapter Bible reading podcast from Christ Church Hemel, helping you read through the Bible one chapter at a time. Follow the full reading plan here:https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/If you’re local to Hemel Hempstead, you’re very welcome to join us on Sundays at 10:30am and 6pm.
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Psalms 120-121
🎧 Psalms 120–121Today’s Daily Bible Reading is Psalms 120–121 — a short Christian devotional about distress, exile, and finding help from the Lord who watches over his people. We read the passage and briefly reflect on what God is saying and how it fits into the big story of Scripture.In this episode:– The main theme: Our help comes from the Lord– How this passage points us to Jesus– How to pray in distress and uncertaintyDaily Bible Reading is a chapter-by-chapter Bible reading podcast from Christ Church Hemel, helping you read through the Bible one chapter at a time. Follow the full reading plan here:https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/If you’re local to Hemel Hempstead, you’re very welcome to join us on Sundays at 10:30am and 6pm.
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Psalm 119:145-176
🎧 Psalm 119:145–176Today’s Daily Bible Reading is Psalm 119:145–176 — a short Christian devotional about crying out to God, trusting his truth, and the need for the Good Shepherd to seek lost sheep. We read the passage and briefly reflect on what God is saying and how it fits into the big story of Scripture.In this episode:– The main theme: The God who seeks wandering sheep– How this passage points us to Jesus– How to pray with honesty, peace, and dependence on GodDaily Bible Reading is a chapter-by-chapter Bible reading podcast from Christ Church Hemel, helping you read through the Bible one chapter at a time. Follow the full reading plan here:https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/If you’re local to Hemel Hempstead, you’re very welcome to join us on Sundays at 10:30am and 6pm.
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Psalm 119:97-144
🎧 Psalm 119:97–144Today’s Daily Bible Reading is Psalm 119:97–144 — a short Christian devotional about loving God’s word, walking in its light, and finding wisdom and refuge in him. We read the passage and briefly reflect on what God is saying and how it fits into the big story of Scripture.In this episode:– The main theme: God’s word is a lamp, a refuge, and a delight– How this passage points us to Jesus– How to pray for wisdom, guidance, and perseveranceDaily Bible Reading is a chapter-by-chapter Bible reading podcast from Christ Church Hemel, helping you read through the Bible one chapter at a time. Follow the full reading plan here:https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/If you’re local to Hemel Hempstead, you’re very welcome to join us on Sundays at 10:30am and 6pm.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Daily Bible Reading is a short, chapter‑by‑chapter Bible podcast from Christ Church Hemel, hosted by David Couch. Each day we read a passage of Scripture and briefly reflect on how it fits into the big story of the Bible and points us to Jesus. Join our church family as we follow a daily Bible reading plan together.Find the full reading plan and more resources here: https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/
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